human behavior: classifier gate, pacing, splitting, quiet hours, stable prompt prefix

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+# SPEC-010 — Human-behavior layer
+
+The bot should feel like a considerate participant, not an instant
+wall of text: it decides *whether* to speak with a cheap classifier
+instead of trusting the main model's self-report, paces its replies,
+splits long answers, and sometimes just reacts. All knobs are
+per-deployment TOML; every feature degrades to the previous behavior
+when its knob is unset (config-off = v3.0.0 semantics).
+
+### BEH-01 — Classifier gates non-direct replies (coverage: test)
+
+With `classifier-model` configured, every non-direct user message
+first passes a cheap classification call (reply yes/no, factual
+yes/no, optional reaction emoji). `reply=false` means no main-model
+call happens at all — this is the boreness suppressor and the
+butting-into-conversations fix (replaces trusting `answer_needed`
+alone; the envelope flag still applies afterwards as second gate).
+
+### BEH-02 — Direct messages bypass the gate (coverage: test)
+
+Mentions and DMs never go through the classifier — someone addressing
+the bot always reaches the main model. Welcome and bot-initiated
+flows do not pass the gate either.
+
+### BEH-03 — Classifier failure fails open (coverage: test)
+
+A failed or unparseable classification (API error, budget refusal)
+falls through to the main model. Availability beats savings; the
+budget gate still protects spend.
+
+### BEH-04 — Reply pacing is typing-proportional (coverage: test)
+
+With `typing-chars-per-second` set (recommended 30), the typing
+indicator is held for `len(part) / cps` seconds per message part,
+capped at `typing-max-seconds` (default 8), before sending. Unset or
+0 = no pacing (v3.0.0 behavior).
+
+### BEH-05 — Factual answers skip the artificial delay (coverage: test)
+
+Messages the classifier tagged `factual` (opening hours, prices,
+addresses) are answered without the BEH-04 delay — utility beats
+theater exactly where users are waiting for information.
+
+### BEH-06 — Long answers are split (coverage: test)
+
+Answers longer than `split-threshold` chars (default 1200) are split
+at paragraph (then sentence) boundaries into at most
+`split-max-parts` (default 3) sequential messages, each under the
+Discord 2000-char limit (which unsplit answers would crash into
+today). Attached images go with the last part.
+
+### BEH-07 — Sometimes a reaction is the reply (coverage: test)
+
+When the classifier returns `reply=false` plus a reaction emoji, the
+bot adds that emoji to the user's message instead of staying fully
+silent. Zero main-model cost, human touch.
+
+### BEH-08 — Quiet hours stop bot-initiated posts (coverage: test)
+
+Within `quiet-hours = "HH:MM-HH:MM"` (host-local, may wrap midnight)
+`bot_initiated_allowed()` is false: no boreness, later no scheduler
+posts. Replies to users stay unaffected — a guest asking at 23:30
+still gets an answer.